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John Lennon vs. the USA
- The Inside Story of the Most Bitterly Contested and Influential Deportation Case in United States History
- Letto da: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durata: 7 ore e 47 min
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Sintesi dell'editore
At a time when the hottest issue in US immigration law is the proposed action by President Obama to protect from deportation as many as five million illegals in the United States, the John Lennon case takes on special relevance, notwithstanding the passage of 40 years since he was placed in deportation proceedings. This is John and Yoko's incredible story, as told by the lawyer who fought in the front lines.
In 1972 President Richard M. Nixon learned that John Lennon was visiting the United States. Nixon was told that Lennon's continued presence here could be catastrophic to his plan for reelection. Lennon, who had just made an appearance before an audience of 15,000 young fans at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, was rumored to be planning to join Jerry Rubin to lead a series of rock music rallies to "Dump Nixon" in anticipation of the 1972 Republican National Convention. The special significance of the 1972 convention was the fact that this would be the first national election in which the voting age was reduced from 21 to 18, adding 5 to 10 million new prospective voters. Nixon was not popular with this young group. Lennon was.
Indeed, Senator Strom Thurmond had just written a Dear John letter to Nixon's attorney general, John Mitchell, suggesting that deporting Lennon quickly would be an "appropriate countermeasure". John Mitchell was the head of CREEP, the Committee to Reelect the President; his day job was as attorney general, in charge of deporting illegal aliens. Following the Watergate-style advice of his legal counsel, John Dean, Nixon decided to "use the available political machinery to screw our political enemies" and proceeded in earnest to deport Lennon and his artist wife, Yoko Ono.
Lennon and Ono consulted Leon Wildes, an expert in the field of immigration law, about the reason for their visit: their efforts to locate and secure custody of Kyoko, Yoko's American eight-year-old child by a prior marriage. American courts had granted Lennon and Ono custody, and Ono's prior husband violated the order to produce the child in court, as ordered. Notwithstanding the Lennons' humanitarian requests, extensions of stay as visitors were denied, the Lennons were placed in strict deportation proceedings, and the US commissioner of immigration instructed the Immigrant and Naturalization Service (INS) not to adjudicate the "outstanding artists" applications filed for Lennon and Ono by Wildes until after the Lennons were deported.
Wildes kept the Lennons here for five years, despite the efforts of the government to deport them. During all that time, the Nixon administration invariably claimed that the Lennons were being treated like all other aliens and that it had no authority to make exceptions to their strict enforcement and removal of deportable aliens.
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Generale4 out of 5 stars
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Lettura5 out of 5 stars
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Storia5 out of 5 stars
- VB
- 25/01/2021
Important piece of history
I enjoyed hearing the history of JL and Yoko but at times the book was a little redundant and overall could have been edited. I appreciate the passion with which the author wanted to include all the details. In a way, I wonder if JL would still be alive today had he been deported.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- Janos Stibla
- 19/03/2023
Excellent book
Life is what happens to you, While you're busy making other plans- John Lennon. Thank you for an excellent book Mr. Leon Wildes
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- KellysHero718
- 19/02/2023
Riveting Story
Many of us are familiar with the basic fact that Nixon wanted Lennon out of the country for paranoid political reasons, but this book presents so many exquisite, compelling details, it was hard to put down. Wildes tells the story based on legal records and personal remembrances, so the details are very detailed. All that was fascinating, certainly, but what was most enjoyable was the author's stories about John and Yoko, personal, private memories that depict the couple as ordinary young lovers dealing with potential disaster beyond what the rest of us experience. This is an excellent book, written and narrated very well.
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Generale3 out of 5 stars
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- Jody L. Eastman
- 12/10/2022
Interesting
This was an interesting account of John Lennon’s struggle to secure American citizenship. It was a little repetitive and dragged at times but overall an important piece of American history that is worth a listen.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- Wesley Barron
- 26/09/2022
Compelling
A precise "unsexy" listen that is continually compelling you to continue. I enjoyed both performance and story.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- Dennis
- 17/05/2022
love this book it is well worth the read
this was a fantastic book one worth your time enjoyed it immensely it was highly informative
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- DonnaMarie113
- 03/03/2022
Finally I can Fill in the Details
All I knew is John Lennon had problems with immigration.
This is an excellent resource to learn that's so much more went on, and for a very long time.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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Lettura5 out of 5 stars
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Storia5 out of 5 stars
- LearningArmo
- 20/10/2021
Celebrity, Immigration, History
Informative and unbelievable! I didn't realize how important this story was to immigration rulings.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- Utente anonimo
- 07/03/2021
Totally appreciate this piece of history!
For me, the perfect balance of personal and legal information. I felt like I was actually following Wilde in real time and in the end as if I were only sitting in a cozy room listening to a great storyteller before me. I may not, all together, understand the legal stuff but I, now, understand more to say how important it was that Mr Wilde wrote this book. I was about Kyoko's age when this happened, living in a small farming community, I only knew bits of the trouble that the Lennon's were in. This book gives great insight into what happened. Being a lover of Lennon's music and a normal person trying to follow the political/legal/historical happenings of current times, Thank you! this piece of historu helps there also.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- Edwin J. White
- 01/02/2021
Great for lawyers
As a retired immigration attorney, I found the legal strategy to be exceptional. The book gives great insight into the humanity of John Lennon and Yokohama Ono.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- Utente anonimo
- 23/12/2022
Fascinating insight
Foynd this to be a treasure trove of information into a period of time in the life and times of John and yoko which is rarely discussed.
Narration was excellent and kept you rapt and attentive to the story.
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Generale4 out of 5 stars
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- J. Fothergill
- 08/12/2022
An interesting, yet short audio book
A very informative and detailed look at a little known time of John lennon's life. Written by the man who won his case. A little short but the narrator's performance makes up for it.
I'd overlooked this for years and glad to have finally listened.
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Generale2 out of 5 stars
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- Michael Anderson
- 30/11/2022
Boring and Fawning
John Lennon Vs the USA gives the impression that Yoko Ono was standing peering over Leon Wildes' shoulder scrutinising every word, because it so slavishly adheres to the Lennon-Ono myth concerning their lives together. Instead of spending the years after getting his Green Card "Producing many works of extraordinary artistry" as summed up near the conclusion, John instead did barely anything. Between 1975 and 1979. There was no new original material at all, just a slapdash and dreary alcohol-and-drugs fuelled cover versions album, Rock & Roll, in 1975. The author betrays an almost complete lack of knowledge about the Lennons, and the descriptions of them as sincere clean-living pillars of the community are ridiculous,. They're portrayed as tee-total and drug-free, and artists who are forever contributing hugely to their respective artistic genres. It's a book which is as divorced from reality as all of those 1980 interviews the Lennons gave.
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- Macksoft
- 25/08/2022
A really interesting story!
I happened across this book by accident and listened to it on holiday in Menorca - I'm so pleased I did, it's a really detailed and interesting story of the legal challenges taken on and overcome by John & Yoko in their efforts to get John legal residence in the USA in the early 70s. Top marks to Leon Wildes, their legal representative and author of this story.
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- RStreet
- 12/03/2022
Engaging look at Lennon’s fight to stay in USA
The author here does a good job of making John’s struggle with the US Immigration Service interesting and understandable. He explains the legal concepts plainly.
Every biography of Lennon I’ve ever read seems to gloss over the legal battle in a few lines, but this book makes it clear that the situation was often precarious, and I wonder how things might have turned out for John if he had been deported from the USA. Would he still be with us? Perhaps.
This is well worth the attention of any John Lennon fan.